My Top 5 WTF Moments in Gaming

There’s always one bit of your time with games that will forever stand out. Whether it’s a hilarious glitch or a super-awesome-combo-kill streak when playing Call of Duty, there's always something that will be burnt into your brain and make you chuckle when you think of it. However for me, they are the moments in games, both big and small that simply make me say “WTF”. As Joe has already gone through his top five, I’ve done a slight twist and highlighted more personal experiences rather than scripted game moments

Warning: Contains Spoilers for some games

5. Serious Sam 2: ‘The Bottomless Lava Fall'

This was one of the first glitches I found. At the beginning of the Kleer Chapter, In the Unreal Wastelands level, you start by being dropped on the edge of a cliff, near a huge pool of lava, which proceeds to flow into a huge hole nearby. If you're playing on beginner mode, you can run and jump over the lava and into the hole just before you die. You then fall. Forever. You never stop. You keep falling until the world slowly fades out of view and Sam is stuck in an endless loop of falling. The medallion is never found, Mental takes over the universe, and poor old Sam was never seen again.

4. Day Z: ‘The Angry Admin’

This is a rather interesting one. It’s not a glitch. It’s no bug. There’s no invisible walls, teleporting zombies or someones head exploding. Instead this is an interesting and rather funny turn of events whilst playing Day Z.

I was playing on a custom Day Z server in which there were strict rules (threatened with a temporary ban) of No PvP in the south part of the Island (places like Chernogorsk and Elektrozavodsk, the places where all the good loot is and the s**t kicks off). So I was in Elektro, on a rooftop, surveilling the nearby area. I had a rifle in hand and plenty of ammo and bandages to tide me over should I have an encounter with the undead. Under the security of that, I made myself very open on the rooftop, knowing I would be able to hold off well should I get spotted by a horde. Suddenly, rifle shots. Coming from nearby. I crouch down and zig-zag, not to try to dodge, but to show I was a player, not a zombie. I then get back up and carry on looking with the binoculars. Another shot soared through the air, this time it hit the ground several feet away. I realise this guy doesn't care about the rules. I get on the ladder in an attempt to slide down, but too late, one of the shots whizzed through the air and found a nice comfy home in my head. After respawning I explained to an admin that had luckily just come on about what happened. They then talked to the player who killed me, who denied it all. After a heated conversation, the admin checked the server logs and saw I was indeed killed by that player.

Even then he denied it and started foul-mouthing me and the admin. By this point I had found someone else and was on a boat with two other guys. Eventually, the admin lost his/her temper and perma-banned the guy on the spot. Enraged, he/she said:

‘Does anyone else want to get banned!?’

to which my friend on the boat said:

‘Me! =D’

The next thing I know that guy wasn’t in the boat anymore.

Whenever I think back to this day I just chuckle. Whilst not something with the game itself, what happened that day surely classifies as a ‘WTF’.

3. Sonic ‘06: ...That Scene

 If anyone was ever played Sonic ‘06 or even watched videos of it, you will probably know exactly what I’m on about now. The fact I was tempted to just put this entire game as a WTF shows how bad and broken it was (this is coming from a big Sonic fan), and this scene probably didn't help with it.

Long story short, Mephiles distracts Sonic with a Chaos Emerald and, in the process, stabs him with his magical laser-sword-hand-thing. Yes; in a game just called ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ they kill off the character called ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’. But don’t worry, that’s not even the worst part. In the next segment Mephiles teleports everyone to a timeless dimension so they are out of the way for Solaris’ revival. With Sonic lying dead in the center, Elise magically is able to ‘sense his presence’ so everyone jumps into action to get the chaos emeralds and revive him (although they already had most of them...? Also Mephiles had one... as you can see the plot has more holes in it than swiss cheese).

He’s not even been ‘dead’ for a minute and now he’s apparently not ‘dead’ but he apparently still is ‘dead’. WTF. But Trust me, it’s not over yet. After obtaining all the chaos emeralds, they place them around Sonic and both him and the chaos emeralds begin floating into the air. Elise then walks up to him, saying some so-called ‘inspirational speech’. She ends up right next to Sonics floating body. And then...

Kisses him. Yes. Sonic ‘06 contains 17 year old princess making out with a 16 year old ‘dead’ hedgehog... what...the... you know...

Also look at Knuckle’s face. Look how much he cares. It’s as if he sees this stuff everyday.

2. Half Life 2: Episode 2: I said have a Seat!

Anyone who ever played Half Life 2: Episode 2 will all know the unfortunate tale of Eli in the end. I tend to be a person that plays through a game multiple times if I really enjoyed it, and naturally HL2:E2 was one of those. I played through the whole game and got the end once again, to Eli’s untimely death. Although for me, it didn’t quite go the same way as it did the last time. Me being me, I started messing around with the revolving chairs in Kleiner's lab (the one where you fire the rocket off) and after watching the rocket go off and proceeding to the next area,  I decided to take the chair with me. After watching the rockets success in closing the combine portal, we carried on into the elevator. I thought “I wonder what happens if I put the chair in the way of the elevator doors?” So I placed it in the door and got in. The doors closed fine, except the chair was going insane, than Eli spoke:

“Are you sure you have everything you n-”

He was suddenly interrupted by a chair soaring through the air. The chair had broken free of it’s chains of the elevator door and shot through the air, and because of where I placed it, it went straight into Eli, actually killing him. Than, when we got to the bottom of the elevator, the screen went all weird like it did normally, but the Advisors never came. Instead I was left to wander the scene in a very slow-mo brown screen thing. Alyx just stood there and Eli was still dead, except this time by chairs. Chairs aren't quite giant tongues that bury themselves into your neck. Maybe one day they might be, but not now.

1. Crash Twinsanity: Glitches

Games have two states. They’re either good, or broken. Good games (stereotypically) are bug free, play smoothly and have deep, branching storylines. Bad games (stereotypically) have bugs that hinder progress or allow you to skip entire segments of games. And we’ve learnt from Sonic ‘06 that even big game franchises can’t escape the pit of hate if it is full of glitches. Yet somehow, Crash Twinsanity, a game which has so many of the bloody things, is said to be the best Crash game ever made and extremely successful, but there were so many bugs and glitches in this game it was chronic.

I think looking through this video will show how much this game is glitched up the eyeballs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBEnzvVNAOo

Yes. He skips entire segments of the game and 4 bosses, all with the power of glitches. And there’s the little stunt he does during the Cortex fight which I honestly don’t understand at all.

There are plenty more moments which make us say WTF, and it would take me forever to list them, but I hope they keep coming because, although they are confusing, they are, nonetheless, funny.